August 5, 2005
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Year of the Eucharist
Mystery of the Mass, Part 21; Synod document on the Eucharist
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Supreme Catholics
Though few in number, Catholics have lengthy history on high by PATRICIA ZAPOR catholic news service
WASHINGTON — If Judge John G. Roberts is confirmed for a seat on the Supreme Court, he will become one of the historically small number of Catholic justices — the first of whom joined the court as its chief justice in 1836, more than 50 years after the court was established. Roberts, a federal appeals judge for the District of Columbia, was nominated July 19 to fill the vacancy created by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s retirement. Roberts graduSee COURT, page 5
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Msgr. Kovacic rescued by UPS driver by
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Outside in the ‘house of God’ Outdoor Mass welcomes migrants, celebrates culture by
JOANITA M. NELLENBACH correspondent
BETHEL — Under the trees, out of the hot sun, the breeze is cool. It’s early evening July 17. On this day, when the Gospel reading tells of a farmer sowing his fields (Matthew 13:24-43), people are setting up for Mass in a farmworker camp. The altar cloth covering the folding table is a serape in bright red, yellow, blue, pink and green stripes. Nearby a shaggy white dog in a pen jumps about and watches as someone places a plastic container of white Queen Anne’s lace flowers on the ground in front of the altar. Augustinian Father Robert See MASS, page 13
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Augustinian Father Robert Dueweke accepts offertory gifts, including cucumbers from the nearby fields, and the offertory collection during an outdoor Mass to welcome migrant farmworkers in Bethel, N.C., July 17.
TOM STOCKER
Hu to the rescue
special to the catholic news & herald
BELMONT — Msgr. Anthony Kovacic seems to have an angel riding on his shoulder. Or at least on his delivery route. The angel is Cathey Deal, a UPS driver who is attributed by emergency room doctors with saving the 85-year-old retired priest’s life July 19. Msgr. Kovacic, former pastor at Queen of the Apostles Church in Belmont, now lives See KOVACIC, page 16
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St. Mark School student saves boy from drowning by
KAREN A. EVANS staff writer
Photo by Karen A. Evans
John Hu, a rising sixth grader at St. Mark School in Huntersville, saved a 4-year-old boy from drowning at a local water park this summer.
HUNTERSVILLE — For most kids, the most exciting thing they wil do this summer may be learning to roller blade or do a back flip off the diving board. But for John Hu, his summer kicked off with probably the most exciting thing he
will ever do in his entire life — saving a young boy from possibly drowning. It was a sunny day June 8 at the Kannapolis Recreation Park and John’s day care group from Huntersville Presbyterian Church was finishing a morning of swimming and playing See HERO, page 9
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Perspectives
Development director wins award; new staffers to help diocese, schools
Deacon’s joke book provides humor for clergy
Potter’s PR spell; the high court and same-sex marriages
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